rotation

rotation is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion round the sun is a revolution. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion round the sun is a revolution.
2. noun. Any return or succesion in a series.
3. adjective. Pertaining to, or resulting from, rotation; of the nature of, or characterized by, rotation; as, rotational velocity.
4. noun. the act of rotating as if on an axis

   "the rotation of the dancer kept time with the music"

5. noun. a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.)

   "crop rotation makes a balanced demand on the fertility of the soil"

   "the manager had only four starting pitchers in his rotation"

6. noun. a single complete turn (axial or orbital)

   "the plane made three rotations before it crashed"

   "the revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year"

   Synonyms: gyration, revolution

7. noun. (mathematics) a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin

Synonyms

gyration, revolution

Common word forms

rotations, rotational

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